Speech Related
The LC-STAR German Phonetic lexicon was created within the scope of the LC-STAR project (IST 2001-32216) which was sponsored by the European Commission.

The lexicon comprises 102,169 entries, distributed over three categories:

- a set of 55,507 common word entries. This set is extracted from a corpus of more than 15 million words distributed over 6 different domains (sports/games, news, finance, culture/entertainment, consumer information, personal communications). This was done with the aim of reaching a target for each domain of at least 95% self coverage. In addition to extracting word lists from the corpus, a list of closed set (function) word classes are included in the final word list.

- a set of 46,662 proper names (including person names, family names, cities, streets, companies and brand names) divided into 3 domains. Multiple word names such as New_York are kept together in all three domains, and they count as one entry. The 3 domains consist of first and last names (20,864 different entries), place names (22,212 different entries), and organisations (5,523 different entries).

- and a list of 6,763 special application words translated from English terms defined by the LC-STAR consortium. This list contains: numbers, letters, abbreviations and specific vocabulary for applications controlled by voice (information retrieval, controlling of consumer devices, etc.).

The lexicon is provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions in SAMPA. The database is stored on 1 CD.